Missionaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS
Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:
M15 Monkley, Margaret, 1938-1946
File — Box SW 36
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/8/1/594
Scope and Contents
Dip. Social Study 1938. File contains correspondence only and includes accounts of her missionary work in the Labrador region of Canada with Dr Charles Curtis of the Grenfell Mission.
Dates:
1938-1946
Oldham Papers
Fonds
Identifier: GD2
Scope and Contents
The collection contains: Oldham's correspondence (1892-1965) including references to Oldham's conversion and his work in India with the YMCA, to his work to promote co-operation between missions and denominations such as through the 1910 World Missionary Conference, the 1937 Oxford conference and the World Council of Churches, to German missionaries in World War 1 and Germany in the 1930s, to Indian and African (particularly educational and East African) issues, to the establishment of the...
Dates:
1892-1990
Found in:
New College Library Special Collections
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Oldham Papers
Papers of Alan Cox (b. 1926)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 29
Scope and Contents
Material includes correspondence about the collection (1993); prayer letters of Alan and Doris Roberts founders of the Home (1955-1960) and of Nona Bell, a sister at the Home (1961-1964); letters and accounts relating to money raised by Cox (1958-1960); notes on the history of the home by Alfred (Fred) Hasted (Welfare Officer), Bella Teite and Enid Johnson (various dates); letters to Hasted from Nigeria referring to the Home (1970-1982); and articles and reports relating to Uzuakoli, the Home...
Dates:
1955-1993
Papers of Annie Gray Buchan (1895-1988)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 16
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: notes and reminiscences written by Buchan after her return from China with some original items and correspondence (1925-1984); talks and addresses concerning China mainly given in the UK by Buchan (1928, 1946-1986); pamphlets and printed items about China including ones on and by Buchan (1941-1989); papers on Eric Liddell and personal items belonging to Buchan (1921-1987); and photographs and pictures of Buchan and China (1920s-1950).
Dates:
1921-1989
Papers of Arthur Ruffell Barlow
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-208
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of material about the Church of Scotland mission in Kenya, about Kikuyu language and culture, and about the interests and concerns of Africans and their relation to the government. In particular it includes: Barlow's comments on and additions to theKikuyu-English Dictionaryby L.J. Beecher and G.S.B. Beecher (including volumes of the 1935 dictionary with Barlow's handwritten amendments) with correspondence (1956-1962) about the publication of a revised version; Barlow's...
Dates:
1903-1965
Papers of Betty D. Gibson (1889-1973)
Fonds
Identifier: GD5
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters (1928-1938) from Gibson to her family written while on missionary business in Europe, Palestine, Africa, and India; notes made by Gibson on African missions visited, on their activities, histories and records, and on meetings about missions (1933-1944) and on continental missions (ca. 1937-1948 including financial status); circulars and printed reports by the International Missionary Council and the Conference of Missionary Societies, and on Nyasaland and...
Dates:
1907-1969
Papers of Cecil Polhill (1860-1938) and Arthur Polhill (1863-1935)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 10
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a copy of a draft manuscript Two Etonians in China 1885-1925 by Cecil and Arthur Polhill. The manuscript includes sections written by both brothers and a short, abridged section of Evangelisation of the World by Benjamin Broomhall. The manuscript covers the brothers' early life, conversion, and work in China and refers to the Cambridge Seven and others working in China at the...
Dates:
1903-1926
Papers of Colin Forrester-Paton (1918-2004) and Jean Forrester-Paton (1917-1998)
Fonds
Identifier: CSWC 37
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of: items relating to the Church in Ghana including the role of the Church of Scotland Mission, the Presbyterian Church and the Christian Council and in particular to the Church's relation to society and government on issues such as education, marriage and Ghanaian traditions; papers on Church Union; material relating to the Christian Council of Ghana's Committee on Christian Marriage and Family Life; and Ghanaian newspapers.
Dates:
1939-1994
Papers of David Clement Ruffell Scott
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-223
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of nineteen letters from Scott to his close friend the Reverend James Robertson written mainly from Blantyre, Nyasaland (Malawi) from the time of his arrival in 1881 to 1895, the year in which his wife and brother died. They describe in some detail the work of the mission and his experiences in Africa.
Dates:
1881-1895
Papers of David Preston (History of the Colonial Mission of the Church of Scotland)
Fonds
Identifier: GD6
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of twelve notebooks containing the unpublished manuscript version of the History of the Colonial Mission of the Church of Scotland.
Dates:
[ca. 1946]